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    	Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun which is approximately 1.4 billion km. Saturn is also the farthest plant that can be seen by the human eye. This planet is named after the Roman god Saturn, which in Greek mythology is the equivalent to Cronos, Jupiter's father. To bring Saturn's size into perspective if the Sun was a door, earth would be the size of a nickel and Saturn would be the size of a basketball. One day on Saturn takes about 10.7 hours to complete. A complete orbit around the sun for Saturn (aka Saturnian time) takes about 29 Earth years.  Saturn was the furthest of the five planets known of in the ancient world. Galileo Galilei was the first to observe Saturn through a telescope in 1610. 
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        Saturn is a gaseous planet, whose atmosphere made up primarily of Helium and Hydrogen. Winds on Saturn can reach up to 500 meters per second, the strongest hurricane winds clocks in at 110 meters per second, a big difference from what we will ever see on earth. The gold bands depicted in many of the pictures of Saturn are a result of these extremely intense wind speeds. Saturn's has a core that is composed of rock, ice, water, and other compounds created by intense pressure and heat generated from the planet's atmosphere. The most identifying feature of Saturn is its large rings. Satur's rings span hundreds of thousands of kilometers but they only measure 10 meter vertically. These rings have been discovered to be made of mostly water and ice.
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       	 Saturn has 53 known moons and there are nine more waiting to be confirmed. The most popular and largest of Saturn's moons is Titan. It is the second-largest moon in the solar system. Titan is covered in a thick nitrogen rich atmosphere. This atmosphere was thought to be similar to Earth's atmosphere a long, long time ago. Five missions have been sent to Saturn. Since 2004, Cassini has been exploring Saturn, its moons and rings.
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            <p>When Galileo first observed Saturn he thought it to be a triple-bodied planet system.  In 1659 Christiaan Huygens discovered, that the other "bodies" were some of Saturn's rings, he discovered this using a stronger telescope.</p>
          
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